Space station approaching! Red alert!

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Jun 10, 2011 1:55 AMNov 20, 2019 4:01 AM

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How flipping nerdawesome is this? A lamp that lights up when the International Space Station is visible!

[embed width="610"]http://vimeo.com/24859969[/embed]

He has the plans online

so you can build one and code it yourself. I bet a lot of teachers would love to get one of these in their classrooms! ... and I want one too. But I'd wind up soldering my hand to the desk. Sigh.

Tip o' the LED to NASA's Twitter feed.

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